... A question for Miss McMahon I AM sure that all wouki-be writers for TV would be grateful to your correspondent. Grace J. McMahon (June 9 issue) if she wouJd clarify some thing in her letter. The lady complains that it is impossible to break into TV as a writer, unless you know some one. She has not, apparently, so far broken into the market yet she knows someone to quote her own words a well- ...

... MISSED THE POINT! SIR,--For once, your usual admirable editorial would seem to miss the point, in regard to children's TV viewing, and view the Joint Committee's report as an attack on the artistic value of the medium, which is something quite different. You list the everyday contri butory factor* to a childs emotional growth. Home. School, Friends, Neighbours, yet fail to realise that it ...

... WANTED CIR, Any television channel that is paid for by adver tisements must seek the largest possible and also the most docile and receptive audience. Viewers stimulated to ques tion by provocative programmes are not in the right frame of mind to accept the claims of advertisers. Any public Corporation, on the other hand, is always liable to become the Voice of the Establishment, since too ...

... SECOND TIME DEAR SIR,--Are plays wanted a second time? Certainly not by authors attempting to get their plays put on. The theatre is beset by many extraneous enemies today, not the least of which are live modern forms of entertainment (just to take show jumping, professional tennis, Har lem Globe Trotters, etc.), and people are unwilling lo see a repeat of something they nave seen before nd ...

... Don't be beastly to TV SIR,--Television is blamed for a great many things in this changing world, much of it aimed at producers who condone the play dealing with the seamier side of life. Life, we must remember, is portrayed in plays, films and books. The author must, of necessity, provide a theme and a plot when he writes his masterpiece. The ensuing story, however, must conform to cer tain ...

... SIR,--Understudying can be one of the most interesting yet most exasperating of an actor's curriculum. Weeks of rehearsals--watching the performances--carefully noting all moves and business, and, when word perfect, the some times long, frustrating period ing for that opportunity to dash on and show 'em how the part should be played! That being so. your correspon dent. Maxwell Foster, ...

... PANTOMIME SIR. I was glad to see a letter on pantomimes. I heartily endorse all that your correspondent has written and I suggest that the Harlequinade should be restored as this essentially puts real panto magic into the shows. Certainly the old traditions should be preserved and pop singers and radio comedians should not be starred in pantos. They dart from microphone to microphone and do ...

... CIR. I fully endorse most of Mr. Michael Codron's views contained in his article in the stage. A Success or a Flop? It is very unfortunate that today, in an age when so many people arc only loo willing to be led. that certain critics use the forum of the national popular Press as a chcap means of displaying their somewhat warped journalistic talents, by treating their review first4y as a ...

... MORE VIEWS M RESTRICTED ENTRY SIR.--To deal briefly with some of the points raised by opponents of Regulated Entry, some are so irrelevant as to make it obvious that the scheme has not been read at all--or not understood. Others are based on conditions which exist now and have done for years. Your Leader- stated the profes sional always wins through. Are the per cent, who can't make a living ...

... It goes further, James O'Toole JAMES OTOOLE'S comment on well-groomed commercial Mums, prompts me to say this is only one example of the way Commercials fall down on realism. Detergent spots are notorious for this especially when it comes to kitchens. They ALL imply that EVERY kitchen is large, light and full of modern equipment, including, of course, a washing wchine. Why aren't some of these ...

... AMERICANS MAR METHOD AND IT'S NOT FAIR I DO not envy Michael Joseph his effort to explain and establish in this country a style of acting which has had so much nonsense written about it. Americans coined the word method for the Stanislavsky System, but their interpretation of it is marred by mannerisms which have provided critics, satirists and frightened classical actors with endless copy. ...

... MISQUOTED JtfORMAN COLLINS was misquoted by Variety about foreign use payments for writers and actors on British-produced telefilm series sold abroad. In his speech, at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Global TV forum, he said: We are in the process of reaching an agreement with but he did not say that any contracts were about to be signed.--Eric Croston, Public Relations Editor, ATV. ...